Gearing.



PATENTED 00T. 10, 19051 G. P. DORRIS.

GEARING.

APPLIUATION FILED 001.12, 1904.

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G. P. DORRIS.

GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED ocT.12. 1904.

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GEORGE P. DORRIS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GEARlNG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1905.

Application i'lled October 12,1904. Serial NoY 228,238.

[0 @ZZ whom it may concern/ V Be it known that I, GEORGE I). Dennis, acitizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis andState of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGearing, of which the following' is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying' drawings, formingpart of this specification.

My invention relates to a housing that forms an extension of the casingof a motor-vehicle vapor-engine and through means of which theengine-crank, the clutch associated therewith, and the transmission gearare completely housed in a manner to exclude all dust and dirt therefromand maintain proper lubrication of the parts.

The invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fullydescribed, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure l is a View, partly in plan and partly in horizontal longitudinalsection, illustrating an engine with my housing applied thereto. Fig. IIis a vertical transverse section taken on line lI II, Fig. I.

I designates avapor-engine in the extension of which is journaled thecrank-shaft 2, bearing the usual fly-wheel 3. Encircling the crank-shaft2 is the clutch 4, that may be of any common construction. This clutchis located within the engine extension.

5 and o' are transmission-gear shafts on which are mounted thetransmission-gears 7 and 8, so disposed as to be placed in gear with theclutch 4 on the crank-shaft 0.

9 designates a main housing member that extends forwardly from aposition at the rear of the transmission-gears and their shafts andcrank of the engine and the transmissiongears both above and below andat its ends by extending to the engine extension. The

shafts and 6 are journaled in boxes 10, positioned in one end of themain housing member and in a cap-plate 1l, located at the other end ofthe housing' member. By incasing the driving mechanism associated with avaporengine in the manner described I completely house all of the gearmembers that must of necessity be kept lubricated in the operation ofthe motor-vehicle and which as a consequence of the lubrication haveheretofore been constantly subject to accumulation of dust and dirt tothe detriment of their proper working. Also by incasing such parts Iprovide for the better attention of the lubricant thereon, so thatlubrication of the mechanism is necessitated much less frequently thanwhere the gearing is exposed, as heretofore.

The housing, furthermore, provides a mediuml by which the gearing-shaftsmay be perfectly alined and their alinement thoroughly maintained, dueto the housing being disposed as a unit with the engine extension.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination with a cylinder of amotor-vehicle vapor-engine having an extension, the engine crank-shaftmounted therein, a clutch and transmission -gearing associated with saidcrank-shaft and clutch, of a housing attached to said engine extensionand serving in its association therewith to incase said clutch,crank-shaft and transmission-gearing. substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the cylinder of a motor-vehicle vapor-enginehaving an extension, the engine crank-shaft mounted therein, a clutchand transmission gearing associated with said crank-shaft and clutch, ofa housing attached to said engine extension and serving in itsassociation therewith to incase said clutch, crank shaft andtransmissiongearing, and bearing members fitted to and which, with theenglne extension, incloses the 1 forming a part of said housing in whichthe shafts of said transmission-gearing are journaled, substantially asset forth.

GEORGE P. DORRIS. In presence of- NELLIE V. ALEXANDER, lBLAvenn HOGAN.

